The overwhelming sadness felt when remembering happy memories.
“Memories of my childhood give me crazy nostalgia grief.”
people who intentionally journey to a particular place in order to conjure a sentimental longing for their past.
"Johnny acts like so many other nostalgia pilgrims when he drives through his old childhood neighborhood during his annual visit to his hometown during the holidays."
misrepresenting someone else's history of a place and selling it back to them
this 538 Johnson hippie run website is really nostalgia cuckolding the punk scene
Blinded by nostalgia is typically a term referring to a player in a video game who knows that they enjoyed a certain newer update of a game, but act as if an older update of the game was better, because it was more "nostalgic", even though the update didn't bring really good stuff.
"Season 3 was better than Chapter 2 Season 2"
"You are blinded by nostalgia"